“I don’t want the job. I don’t want to be Speaker. There are lots of other people in our conference who could do a better job. That’s not what I’m focused on,” Jordan said in an exclusive interview with The Hill.
“I’m focused on trying to help our group and our entire conference do what’s best for families across this country, and when you do that you’re doing things that are good for the country.”
Friends and allies of Jordan on Capitol Hill also insist he doesn’t want the Speaker’s gavel — but there’s a caveat.
“Some of the best leaders the world has ever seen had to be convinced to become a leader. Case in point: George Washington. He didn’t want to become president of the United States; he wanted to go back to his farm,” said Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), who along with Jordan is one of the nine founders of the Freedom Caucus.
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